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What do you feel about cremation vs. burial?

In my opinion, I believe God wants us to be buried (1 Corinthians 15:35-55) It is the same way with the resurrection of the dead. Our earthly bodies are planted in the ground when we die, but they will be raised to live forever. Our bodies are buried in brokenness, but they will be raised in glory. They are buried in weakness, but they will be raised in strength. They are buried as natural human bodies, but they will be raised as spiritual bodies. For just as there are natural bodies, there are also spiritual bodies. What are your opinion in cremation?What would you choose? Thanks in advance

Quite honestly, the American Indians burned their dead in quite a celebration. I have chosen cremation with explicit instructions for my family not to spend the exorbitant amounts of money that it costs for all the fancy services and burial. I don't want them grieving over a hole in the ground.

What a great question. I don't want either. Lay my body amongst the rocks in the Dragoons and let my remains nourish whatever critters find it. Hopefully ravens and not coyotes.

I like that, it's romantic. The old Tibetan Buddist's were real recycliers. The cut up the bodies & then broke the bones so the scavengers could easily make a thorough job of it. That would be OK with me, make danm sure I'm dead first though!

I don't even care about the coyotes, they gotta' eat too.

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"The good things a person needs-stubbornness, thinking for himself-don't make him a useful member of society. What makes him useful is to be half dead." Sylvan Hart

I'm a Christian. A lot of Christians suspect that cremation is bad,
BUT- it only accomplishes what normally happens after time anyway.

Dont forget about the Christians who were martyred by being
burned at the stake because they wouldn't deny Christ.
God is quite capable of re-creating a body for them.
I believe he has our "physical blueprint" on file.

I think that our DNA is simular to a race cars computer design program.
If you wreck a race car, the builder can create a new one from scratch
using the same design as the first. ( but with better, faster parts )

The builder would be insulted if you offered him the burnt twisted
wreck of your last car as the material for the new one. He would
say, I'm going to recreate your race car, and "you aint seen nothin yet!"
this one is "gonna fly."